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Associate Professor of Music

BS in Music Education, Daemen College; in Buffalo, MS in Music Education, S.U.N.Y. Fredonia; doctoral studies in Music Education, Case Western Reserve University

Theatre, Communication & Fine Arts

Professor George was raised in Erie, educated in Erie, Buffalo and Cleveland. Professor George was a church organist from the age of 10 and has been an organist at 5 Catholic churches in the Erie Diocese over a 45 year span.
Professor George was in the first group of American music educators to be invited to China to teach their music teachers various classroom methods, and authored one of 6 papers chosen for presentation during the trip to China. Her paper was the only one chosen for publication. Professor George was recently awarded the Daemen College Distinguished Alumna Award for 2008.

Try to have your course load reflect a diversified education and not be primarily focused on courses in your major.

The ability to get to know my students on a first name basis fairly quickly and the interaction afforded with the students and teachers because we pride ourselves on being a student-oriented teaching university. It’s all about learning about the students and getting to know them and helping them to learn in a way that is best for them.

Many of my students use music as a valuable assist in their dental practice and in their surgical suites. One of my former students did my hand surgeries and used some of the music that he’d been introduced to in my Intro/Music class during my hand surgery procedures.

All of them because I LOVE TEACHING!

How music can affect every aspect of our living (while shopping, eating, relaxing, resting, exercising, etc.) and how to develop new courses based on these interests that can be useful in the students’ majors. I ‘ve developed a course in Music in Marketing and Advertising, for example, because of my interest in how music influences our desire, or lack of, to purchase the product being presented with that music AND what about that music has influenced our decision?